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Question: Is Edge your default browser? (It isn't mine, but I do have it installed. I have not seen this behaviour on Win 10 Home.)
It’s not like you have the choice anyway. It’s impossible to remove it. Well it’s technically possible but it’s not easy and since Windows ignores your default browser settings, it continues to try starting edge and gives you an error when you want to open a webpage from anything windows (start menu, help …)
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Counterpoint, I tried it and it was good enough for me. I play games every day and haven’t used Windows since 2020.
I used it for about 3 months for Monster Hunter World with some occasional visual bugs and artifacts, just had to tweak some settings to go from 3 FPS to 60 FPS (seemed to only use my GPU if I selected a particular DirectX version). One day a patch dropped and it went back to 3 FPS. Couldn't find a remedy, so I installed windows. No more visual bugs and artifacts and no more tweaking settings to play the game.
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Games.
I saw your same - not really valuable - comment above. If you're using Windows for games only, then having or not having an Edge icon on the desktop is not an issue. If you're using it professionally, then it's annoying, along with all the ads, tracking, dark patterns and other bullshit you receive in Windows - especially that you already pay for a license. Compare that with Linux, which mostly gets out of your way,…
With Proton you can play most games now. AAA or not. Like, Death Stranding, it works.
Then, you can remove all the built in spyware, that’s enabled by default.
Does anyone have a list of all the dark patterns Microsoft has used to push IE, Bing, and Edge? It's truly astounding.
What I find astonishing is, that they were fined 561 million once by the EU, for not having an explicit "ballot box" where the user was offered different browser as alternative and now they can do way worse, without getting fined. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission "On 16 December 2009, the European Union agreed to allow competing browsers, with Microsoft providing a "ballot box" screen letti…
Speaking of, I'd love to get rid of the mandatory search bar on the Android home screen.
It happens when Edge updates which, like Chrome, happens fairly frequently so I can understand why you might think that it is forced. But you can delete it and not have it appear until Edge updates again. Note that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of many that does the same thing, it used to do it, stopped for a while, and is now doing it again. My errant thought is that this sort of thing happens when the marketing depar…
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When did you try, and which genres? Out of all the 20+ games that I bought in the last two years, all of them were Gold or Platinum rank on ProtonDB. The only real issues these days are with anti-cheat stuff in competitive multiplayer games.
> The only real issues these days are with anti-cheat stuff in competitive multiplayer games Every game I play is a competitive multiplayer game.